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To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:46:54 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:17:40 -0700
From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
Message-Id: <20130315181740.C14B3B834@mail.bitblocks.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] The PATENTED IBM MULTI-PIPE : the evolution of unix
	pipes
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On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:46:54 EDT Kurt H Maier <khm-9@intma.in> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:29:09AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
> >
> > If it is same or close enough, what matters is if your code can be
> > shown as prior art.
>
> I don't see how.  The US is first-to-file land, now.

I believe prior art does matter.  Otherwise I can trawl
through all old tech papers and start filing patents left and
right -- wouldn't be surprised if someone has already tried
that!  I am not a lawyer etc.